"I am extremely happy to bring you my Halo reach Montage 1, edited by Zhestal. After 3 years of wanting to get this out, it finally is and I couldn't be happier with the outcome. After the release of Terminus, I had gameplay left over and wanted to put it towards my M1. With some other gameplay gotten over the next month or so, I started contacting editors. Some people I have worked with, and some I have yet to have the chance to. Unfortunately it didn't go over well. Either there was communication, capturing or real life issues that prevented us from finishing. Zhestal and I got talking and he agreed to take up the project. This was in May of 2013, we've definitely procrastinated since then."
-Toasty

"HI. I'm glad to finally release a video that has been overdue for a while. Pretty much a lot of bad luck set this montage back for months, along with me being a slow/indecisive editor. Anyway, I went into editing this hoping to create at least one more Reach video I would be satisfied with. Regardless of the setbacks, I enjoyed editing this and seeing what I could do with effects along with my usual editing style. This is my favorite and possibly the last video I'll make for Reach. I'm very grateful for Toasty allowing creative freedom, giving me his clips to edit again, and waiting for so long to see this video in completion.

Hope you enjoy our entry to the THF Comp 2014."
- Zhestal

Finally, I just want to give a huge thanks to everybody that supported me throughout the last 3 years. I've made a lot of friends, shared in a ton of memories with members on this site and no length of credits can show how grateful I am. I understand some people were hyped for this video and I can only hope we've lived up to your expectations. So without further adieu, please enjoy the video!

Make sure to leave comments/feedback, anything, whether it be positive or negative, is greatly appreciated by both Zhestal and myself.

I don't have time to write up a whole review, but I think this is incredible. Some of the best Reach gameplay I've seen. Everything during that last song was sick as hell. This is probably my favorite Entry so far, but I've said that with every entry haha.

Don't forget to submit it I made a new column with all the youtube embeds, a little easier for you guys to follow. I recommend watching all entries if you haven't

The Gameplay was absolutely nuts, never disappointed when Toast shows his weird ass/ridiculous skills. Some of those were some of the best Reach clips I have seen to date. So good job on that my brotha, glad you could finally get this beast released.

The editing was insane. But thats not really a shocker seeing as it came from Zhestal. I have always thought you had some of the most unique styles of editing and hands down some of the smoothest transitions around in the editing scene. Only thing to me was the CC, some of it was somewhat eh to me at times, but most of the time it was pretty spot on. Besides that small thing, there was really nothing wrong with this video. Seriously good editing.

My youtube comment: love it when i video i've been hyped for for ages is finally released and this didn't disappoint. Gameplay was nasty with as a nice variety of playlists including lots of team slayer / objective clips and some incredible shots within lots of high multis, and the editing was on point. I loved all the colours, the fucking purple and green grenade launcher effect was amazing. The music was all awesome too, i love the guitar soloey songs zhestal picks. All round amazing job, i think this stands as my favourite competition entry right now ﻿

Holy fuck howard. That was so good. I think the Passion Pit remix was one of my favorite songs of editing in a montage ever. So tight.

Specific parts that stuck with my through the mindfuck that was that montage:
-Love the angle when he is lifting up on tower. Blanking on the map name but you know what I mean.
-Two effects near each other in the passion pit song where there were colors bursting that either began or ended in the shape of the opponents body. Bad description, but again you know what I mean. The first one was in MLG on sanc.
-Obviously that sexy transition amidst the trocity exterm. Hawt.
-And then the whole last song was so sick because it had a VERY distinct feel and reminded me of terminus, which I adore.

Toasty, GP was nutso as always. The multikills don't stop with this one. Glad to finally see this come out from you. It's been a long time coming Huzzah!

Howard, Toasty, let's all get married and move in together. Puba can be our housecat.